Visual Studies: A Social Scientific Perspective This book presents a transcultural and generative introduction to the field of visual studies. Aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at students and scholars in the social sciences, it explores the mu...

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The Visual Studies book is in good company at the 42nd International Visual Sociology Association conference in South Korea 🙏

Thank you Han Sang Kim and colleagues, as well as the many student volunteers for a very informative and caring conference experience.

#IVSA2025 #visualstudies

it’s a beautiful reflection.

Opinion | There’s More to Selfies Than Meets the Eye Is a selfie embarrassing? It depends on how you think about it.

The New York Times has installed *Visual Studies*, a series that explores how images move through and shape culture.

Great to see this kind of public attention! Hopefully the academic field with its research traditions is reflected in future contributions too.

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It is spring 2025 and the book is today officially out ✨💫

I hope it will be useful to those of you who are interested in exploring how our ways of seeing impact on how we relate to each other, our selves, and the various worlds we inhabit.

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Very excited about this book, written together with the fantastic Paolo S H Favero. It has been such a joy to live, weave and share ideas together. Cover 📸 by one of my favourite artists, Maija Tammi. Available in spring 2025 🔥🥳

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Hi Hugh, it’s a great topic. And yes, there are indeed many earlier moments to consider. The camera studies network has met physically a few times, atm there’s no public way to keep track, but I’ll suggest that.

the ‘speculative camera’.

Your question (and answers) will be definitely of interest to the camera studies network (www.zem-brandenburg.de/en/projekte/...), so looking fwd to learning more.

(I’ve read it in German, Das geteilte Bild). I guess both the question of ‘the camera’ and ‘the digital’ are not self-evident, I’ve tried to make some suggestions related to the former in a chapter on ‘The camera as a meeting place for decision making’ as well as a forthcoming co-authored paper on

Thanks @profgillian.bsky.social , very interesting question. I haven’t come up with an answer, some books such as Gustavson’s ‘Camera’ suggest arriving at the ‘digital’ from that perspective, but of course the book doesn’t fully answer the question.

I’ve enjoyed Gunthert’s L’image partagée…

Movie poster with young child whose face is covered by an adult’s hands. Text invites to a screening.

Today we discuss with the filmmakers of Kukaan ei katso sinua silmiin (No one looks you into the eyes) loneliness, camera-mediated sociality and the life around us that is only visible mediated via technologies. Incl screening of the film!